Economics
If Afghanistan Survives 2016, the UN Will Consider It a Success
- Economy, insurgency, dissent, funding all seen as challenges
- Failure will result in deeper crisis, not necessarily collapse
Ashraf Ghani, President of Afghanistan.
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The United Nations has set a low bar for success in Afghanistan this year: Survival.